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"And we feel that some parts of the budget suffer from serious legal defects.

The new bill corrects the legal defects, Council leaders asserted.

Mr. Giuliani insisted yesterday that the new law had not corrected the legal defects of the 1994 version.

Both groups said today that the new proposal did nothing to cure the fundamental legal defects in the original proposal.

Council officials insisted yesterday that the new bill corrected the legal defects of the 1994 proposal and would withstand legal challenge.

Mrs. Whitman succinctly summed up the bill's legal defects in a letter to legislators last month.

They frequently questioned civilian ballots, for example, while defending military ballots with the same legal defects.

Thomas Westall, the agency's director of flight standards in Anchorage, said the proposed fine was reduced because of "purely legal defects."

Mr President, I move that the vote be postponed until tomorrow morning at the earliest, but preferably until September, because the draft still contains two legal defects.

If the authority was confident it had taken care of any legal defect in its handling of the toll rise, its actions still drew criticism later in the day in the Legislature.

The clearest illustration of the differing strategies was in the pre-printed protest forms that each campaign prepared for use with the canvassing boards as they scrutinized each ballot envelope for legal defects.

Immediately after the court's decision, Gov. George E. Pataki and the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, promised to cure the legal defect and quickly pass a new law.

However, as the colony of New South Wales was not yet established, the Admiralty obtained additional letters patent to ensure that there was no legal defect in the constitution of the court.

Together with his brother, Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property-a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.